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Thursday, February 28, 2013

Xôi xéo or sticky rice in northern style

In my blog, I do mention not once about the popularity of sticky rice dish, we have southern style, northern style, we have sweet and also savory sticky rice dish. We have many!

I also mention in one of my posts about the rumor - how big is the business by selling only a good sticky rice on the street...the sales over 80.000 USD per month (don't ask me is it after tax or not, no clue!).

And that famous sticky rice stall with a fabulous sales located in the old quarter of Hanoi - it's called Xôi Yến (sticky rice and Yến - should be the female owner's name). I do visit this place twice during my short stay in Hanoi.

Actually I tried xôi xéo in Hanoi long ago, and never stop asking my friends, what does it mean "xéo". No clear answer. Some said that's the way they cut very thin slices of green mung bean paste over sticky rice.

I came back to Hanoi last week, when the temperature was down to 15oC, in the cold weather at night I got a chance to taste the sticky rice with chicken from Xôi Yến. I have to say - superb! So tasty! Good sticky rice, good chicken and esp. those thin green mung bean paste mixed with chicken fat... oh dear, should be very high cholesterol!

their secret could be from the bottle of chicken fat's (!), it makes the dish so tasty.

Here's a big pan to stew different kinds of ham, and the other part for ground meat paste.

The huge pan to stew all kinds of ham is very typical for sticky rice dish in Hanoi, we don't have it in Saigon. I remember when I saw it for the first time, I was quite surprised, we have sticky rice with ham, but to stew ham like this - to make it more tasty, softer, it's unique, by some how it seems doesn't work for southern taste.

Ready to serve, look very irresistible...

but to finish this bowl with so many things on it...it could make me very full.

and here you go - Xôi Yến in Hanoi, where the sales over 80,000 USD per month!

Let's think about it! Meanwhile you better try xôi xéo by yourself if you happen to be in Hanoi!
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I used to travel a lot in my corporate life but never took any photo, neither wrote down any note. In 2011 when I decided to take a break from business, I started my first blog, it was all of a sudden while chatting with a friend in a coffee shop, he created the first platform for me, taught me how to do it, even my blog's name came up just in a few minutes later! Anyway I first heard about blogging, back in 2007-2008 when someone sent me a link to some English reporter's blog about the street food he experienced in Vietnam. I would say that blog was my first inspiration. Viet Street Food is not only about the food that we eat on the street, even not about how to cook it, it's more about my memories related to that or another food experience, my feelings and some other stories in my life.